The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-03-10
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srArEsMAN AND NOVELlsr


STATESMAN AND NOVELIST
An Interesting Talk lietwcsn Senator In.
gals Of Kansas, and MIR. ". u. Howells.
Harrtt. Enrhar. Monroe IN LipDeneoa'h
The evening OF March IL. 1886, l spen,
a few hours at the Washington home O
Senator mud Mra. Ingalls,, whittier l had
accompanied Mr.. and Mrs. IIowells, and
there heard about tho following CONVEX
sa,ion:
The sketch 10, OF conrse, stripped OF The
picturesque language Of tho speakers, but
tho spirit and sentiment are retained.
In person Mr.. Howells Is about 8 feet 4
inches In height, quite etout, with shor,
neck, largo head carried q little IN 'front.'
probably a reeult Of continual leaning
forward to write-pleasant blue eye, iron.
gray hair and mustache, colorless Napo.
leonic face. N s#
Senator ingalls,, tall, straight, slender,
With largs head, piercing black eye, gray
hair and mustache, looka the scholar and
distinguished man even In a crowd OF dis.
tinguished people.
Two persons could ncarcely DO more an.
~tipodal: Ingalls, srgumentative, pungent,
picturesque; Howells gentle, graphic and
absorbent.
After the p%reliminarics Mr.. Howells
gsid, "Nlr. ingalls,, what do you think Of
ClevelandY
I'm mhny respects l have not mado up
my mind. l will give you my data, and
you can come to your own conclusions. It
was something TO see a man who had been
in Washington but nee before enter the
Senate Chamber with perfect solf.poases.
sion In company with Mr.. Arthur, that
polished, pelf.poised gentleman. The
leading men OF the Nation were present;
the galleries were full Of distinguished
people. More anxious TO see him sven
than the others were tho leaders Of his
own party from tho South, to whom lie
was personally unknown. Amid such
surroundings no coolly took his seat be-
side Mr.. Arthur, with every eye, every
opera.glHss, ~centered on him. He looked
neither embarrassed nor nervous in tho
least. He never moved during that half
hour Of preliminary exercises-not Ills
hand, not his foot; he did not wink often.
er than usual; he might have been bronze,
for any effect the inspection seemed to
produce. He then moved ont 10 the front.
where he took the oath Of Office and de.
livered the first inaugural l ever heard
pronounced without manuscript. He
stood there and delivered that hsrangue
Of dogmatic platitudes without any at-
tempt at oratory." "
"D!d he not have notes?" asked Mr.,
Howells.
"Ho held q card between the second
and third fingers Of the left hand, which
he kept mostly behind him. Occasionally
his would bring that card in front OF him
1t probably contained only q few catch.
words. The fact that in the few months
Of intense excitement between the time
Of his election and Inauguration he should
have gotten that speech into his mind sc
as to give It calmly before that vast multi.
tude, whom no man could number, YVES to
the inexplicablo."
"Was his inimobiiity training or temper.
smant2" asked Mrs. Howolls.
Temperament. I should ssy," contin.
nei the Senator. "rhen he has what his
friends call frmncss, what his enemiee
%denominate obstiaacy. lie IL perfectly
aeli-reliant. l have quietly asked nearly
every Democratic Senator, With whom
does Nj. Cleveland advice? Who is bis
best friendT Not one Of them knows
and it is now acknowledged by them that
he has no intimate friend, no adviser, nc
counsellor; no one but Grover Cleveland
is responsible for his acts. Now draw
your own conclusions"
do you think he has kept faith with
the m~ugwurnps2"
"Yes, il no has kept faith with sny
party. The Democratic certainly think be
has failed them"
Mrs. HoEells then said: THAT mug.
wumpisn movement was very singular,
was it not2 1t was considered & gentle
manly movement. Tho as.hctic men LOST
their hcsds ard staked everything on this
nan without 9 history except rs Mayor OIL
HufTale, and a one.term Governor OF New
York" n.
EYES," said the Senator, "a man who
LETT a lucrative professional practice at 81
to become sheriff Of his county, and hung
two prisoners with his own hands TO save
the fec no would have been compelled to
pay 3 deputy; it seems rather CHASTITY,
does it not?"
"Mre Howells said: "May 10 not have
thought it more noble, no no had &C.
copied tho Office, TO personally fulfill all
its dutieB?'5 3Er.
You arc very kind, Mrs. Howelle, to
to take ouch acharitable visw OF the case,'
Haid MIR. Ingalls,. III you want charity
you must 60 to women"
"Y-e--s," said Mr.. Howells, with @
little ehrug, "charity to tho-actions-of-
men,"
"rhoso mugwunps," continued Mr..
ingalls,, Thought to purify tho country
by precipitating into the Presidential
chair tho representative OF the worst Gle.
ment. |, there not some m~ugwumpien
influence generated from Harvard Uni
versity?"
"Mr. Ingalls," said Mr.. Howelle, "you
may be ssid to reprecent both the East and
the West. You are originally from New
Enalsnd, aren't youw
"Yes; ! was horn snd brought up in
Essex county, Massachusetts, educatsd a.
Williars College, went to Kansas in 1858,
where | have beon ever since. Yes, !
think l eth both Eastern and Western"
"rhat Wcet is O marvellous country,
and l hupo I shall yet see it."
"YeB," said tho Senator, "kansao ID
more truly the New England Of books
snd ldesa than what 10 now lett III Now
England. The e%nterprieing young New
England graduate has gone Weet,r csrry.
ing with Elm the church, the school, the
Puritsn idcaa, the moral -earue.tness at
tsibuted to New England in books. The
foreign element has captured Nav
England farming land. Ny fathers farm
has long been occupied by an English
peasant. We have the real New
Englund in tho West"
aYou will hear" said Mr.. Ingalle,
more profanity in On hour around q Now
England railway station than you would
hear in ksrsss il q month. Western PEG.
pie also observe the Sabbath"
"We Me not sabbatarians," ssid Nh.
Howellu.